Sustainable Beauty Packaging Innovations - part3
The critical aspect to consider when considering your product's end-of-life is its recyclability. Most beauty packaging has many parts, heavy decorations, or small or intricate sizes that make it difficult to recycle.
In this four-parts, we release the innovations, we have identified from the supply side, on the market, over the course 2023.
PART 3 - RECYCLE
How to Ensure Your Packaging is Recyclable:
- The key aspect to take into account when thinking of the end of life of your product is the recyclability aspect.
- Most beauty packaging have many parts, heavy decorations or small or intricate size that make them difficult to recycle.
- Inside our packaging content we cover the recycling topic and you will see that recycling or “sorting” is a tricky job in the beauty world.
PRODUCTS INNOVATIONS
DOUBLE GLASS - refillable
About
Once the product is finished, the packaging can be reused up to 25 times. The consumer can easily disassemble and reassemble the packaging to insert a new glass ampoule with your beauty formulas. This will also allow an easy recycling of the different components at the end of the packaging’s life cycle.
The glass ampoule's rounded design makes Double Glass unique packaging that differs from all other refillable products in Berlin Packaging | Premi Industries' catalogue.
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- Ethical luxury: made of glass and with PP and PETG accessories,
- Double Glass offers a sophisticated design and refillable innovation,
- Solution for prestigious skincare and makeup products in 15 or 30 ml size.
Supplier: PREMI INDUSTRIES (Berlin Packaging)
Location: Italy - Delivery Worldwide
Release Date: October 2023
ShapeUp Stick - Quadpack
SHAPEUP STICK
About
This 12.5ml panstick dispenses beauty product in a unique, personalised shape. Whether it's a logo, a symbol, or any geometric pattern that adds meaning and helps tell a story, ShapeUp boosts brand equity and engages consumers like no other product.
Easily refillable and recyclable, and available with recycled content. The entire pack is mono-material PP, with the cap and base made of PP or PCR PP.
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- Customisable
- Airtight
- Refillable
- Mono-material
Supplier: Quadpack
Location: Spain - Location: Worldwide
Release Date: October 23 (@LuxePack Monaco 23)
UNO DROPPER
About
For skincare brands looking to combine appealing aesthetics with eco-conscious packaging, the new push-button ‘UNO dropper’ has a mono-material construction with all parts made from the PP/PE family. The tinted bottle is finished with a subtle gold pearl effect and a finely detailed foil design. The white pearl collar coordinates beautifully with a simple foil trim.
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- Push button dropper
- Mono material dropper made in PP/PE family
- 50ml
Supplier: HCP packaging
Location: UK / HK
Release Date: October 23
METAL FREE & RECYCLED COMPACT
About
The mono-material compact is made entirely from Eastman Cristal One Renew, a RIC1 resin with 100% certified recycled content (allocated via an ISCC-certified mass balance approach).
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- No metal hinge for full recyclability as is.
- Crystal One Renews copolyester designed to be fully compatible with the PET recycling stream, and fully recycled content from ISCC certified mass balance.
Supplier: Eastman / Icons ICS (Icons Beauty Group)
Location: France
Release Date: Nov 23
